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Author: Davey Dreamnation

Davey Dreamnation (1972–?) is an Australalian musician, vocalist, pirate and record-label owner who now lives ‘in the third person’. View his full biography.

  • Imaginary Mao II

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    our first date – what a write-off! i even bought you flowers – you selfish man! you could have told me you’d double-booked – hell! million-booked more like it boy you had a nerve making all of us line up like school-kids in our uniforms hand in hand boys & girls two by two round…

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  • Beijingku

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    two fluffy white buns filled with nothing but hot air ah, spring in beijing!†

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  • Shanghaiku

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    outside my window a hundred games of mah-jonng spring rain in shanghai

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  • Yesterday’s Armies

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    even yesterday there was a tomorrow but that’s today and now yesterday has no tomorrow only something like the days before when armies were just as foreign as something in a foreign newspaper that (torn down† contained news from our foreign wars that happened days before or even some time in that crystal future’s past…

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  • Posting Blind

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    Ni Hao! Greetings to the world from Shanghai, where for some reason I am able to open the Blogger site but not my homepage itself, meaning that for the next week or two I will be posting blind, hoping that some of my formatting is not lost, and that these posts and poems will not…

  • China!

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    In less than twenty four hours I’ll be on a plane heading towards China, where I’ll be spending the next three weeks drinking tea and Tsing Tao beer, eating noodles and Peking Duck, catching high speed trains and tediously slow buses, walking down new hutongs and old expressways, listening to symphonies of traffic and melodious…

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  • Cold & Sore

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    In the rejection halls I began planting volcanoes, my lips the Pacific Rim on fire – but Oahu! Boy, I needed a holiday, needed to see the lava spray against the midnight rocks, then plop back into a pool complete with bar. We were really in the centre of things there, literally. Or, in the…

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  • When You Go Away

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    i will be playing enya in my head i’m sorry i know it sounds corny but she’s there as well as you mo radh there’s no point denying it i love clannad can’t put a finger on it wreathed in shadows fogs bats & crooked crosses stranger mists than these in fact sinead’s there too…

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  • Disappearer

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    you say millions now living will never die can one of you please explain how come the rest of us are going to disappear from the face of this earth because we will you know disappear that is don’t think i’ll ever get a reply still it’s worth asking the tough questions every once in…

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  • Moriapo

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    like a murder suicide yesterday’s tiffs became today’s shower of glacial regret hit on the head by super large moriapo*† left winded bruised & read-dead on our set-list stories of lost orders events tragedies that come in threes like the drinks the straws (deadly for dolphins the lipstick trace a circular argument nobody heard a…

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  • The Avian Sars: “Whilebird Chirpings”

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    DNRC062 | 7″ | 2007

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  • Emotional Detox

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    just where the instrumental kicks in i’m down at reception signing names now she’s back from hell’s other wing stirring up trouble beneath our skins clouds sown with rain seeds as down systems beyond the understanding of space entrepreneurs see their boring powers & if they want to photograph me from space they’re welcome to…

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  • Great Moments in Architecture (1)

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    This magnificently-crafted construction, located within the grounds of the University of Melbourne, demonstrates the breathtaking potential of modern architecture, a topic upon which I have recently had occasion to reflect. The smooth, elegant and organic lines of this mysteriously artistic building remind me somewhat of a gum tree, with its attendant leaves, bark and sap.…

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  • The In Jokes

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    Future pranksters The In Jokes (pictured) will release their debut (in fact, only) single on the highly respected [dnrc] label some time in 2007. Find out its fate by visiting the [dnrc] site today. Or tomorrow. I mean, it’ll still be there then. The picture above, taken by a [dnrc] administrative assistant at a recent…

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  • 300

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    cigarette distant a from smoke like disappear will we

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